Meeting
Abstract Number: 843
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32-year old female with complicated past medical history of intravenous drug use, mitral valve endocarditis status/post repair, and recent diagnosis of Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) was transferred from another hospital for management of severe thrombocytopenia refractory to Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) and steroids. She had initially presented with intermittent high-grade fevers and fatigue without […]
Abstract Number: 843
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 45-year-old Asian male with a history of IgG4 related disease presented with a three-day history of fevers, fatigue, and a severe, bilateral, temporal headache. The patient was diagnosed with IgG4 related disease one year prior, which was confirmed with a liver biopsy with positive stain for IgG4 disease; patient had only been on […]